The USA mentioned Wednesday that its embassy within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, had closed after receiving “particular info of a possible important air assault.”
“Out of an abundance of warning, the Embassy might be closed, and Embassy workers are being instructed to shelter in place,” it mentioned in a safety alert, recommending U.S. residents take shelter if an air alert is introduced.
Shutting the embassy is just not an unprecedented transfer amid the struggle, which reached its 1,000th day Tuesday.
The Ukrainian capital got here beneath assault by Russian drones early Wednesday, mentioned the pinnacle of Kyiv’s Metropolis Navy Administration, Serhii Popko, including that particles had fallen within the Dniprovskyy district.
“A hearth broke out in an house of a multi-story residential constructing,” he wrote in a put up on Telegram, including that details about the victims was being clarified.
Greater than a dozen individuals have been killed in an intensified wave of Russian aerial assaults, which have focused vitality infrastructure throughout Ukraine and compelled widespread blackouts.
The renewed risk to Kyiv follows information that Ukraine carried out its first strike on Russian territory with U.S.-supplied long-range weapons, hitting a army facility within the Bryansk area with ATACMS missiles.
The Kremlin has reacted furiously to the relief of U.S. restrictions on its ally, and early Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin formally revised his nation’s nuclear doctrine, decreasing the brink for his nation’s use of nuclear weapons.
Moscow may justify a nuclear strike if topic to an assault by a nonnuclear nation that’s supported by a nuclear nation, in accordance with the revised doctrine.
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